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Brad Templeton

Personal blog · templetons.comaipoliticsphilosophy

Brad Templeton's personal blog at templetons.com covers ai, politics and philosophy. Since 2007, 60 different Hacker News readers have linked it 80 times, most often “Copyright myths explained”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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80mentions?
60HN people?
2007–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2010

Most-linked posts?

  1. Copyright myths explained
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2007-05-12
  2. Where Robot Cars (Robocars) Can Really Take Us
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2010-07-19
  3. /brad/billg.html
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-01-21
  4. /brad/transit-myth.html
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-06-18
  5. Fixing DNS -- how to break up ICANN
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-01-11
  6. Alice Pascal
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-02-21
  7. /brad/copymyths.html
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-27
  8. The Rise and Fall of the earliest "dot-com"
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-06-09
  9. Reaction to the Dec Spam of 1978
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-24
  10. /brad/robocars/timeline.html
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. tensor_rank_0 · 2018-02-26
    you listed a bunch of advantages of wealth that I dont think anyone would dispute. and you talk about taking that away. how is this supposed to help people who are already impoverished? it seems like you want there to be more people in poverty, not fewer. > http://www.templetons.com/brad/billg.html riddled with fallacies and calculated to produce envy. totally irrelevant to our discussion.

    Comment linking /brad/billg.html

    on “How poverty changes your mindset”
  2. phantom_oracle · 2022-01-01

    Submitted The Problem with Vanity TLDs (2011) as a story · 42 points

    HN discussion
  3. kraig911 · 2018-02-26
    It's hard to get people out of poverty than enrich people before that happens. It's easier to bring the extremely wealthy down to a certain level to accommodate for those that don't have the ability to get unlimited tries. See perspective:: http://www.templetons.com/brad/billg.html Wealth and safety nets give families chances where those in poverty can't afford to take. "Move across the country and change jobs or ri…

    Comment linking /brad/billg.html

    on “How poverty changes your mindset”
  4. seanmcdirmid · 2014-08-22

    Submitted Alice Pascal as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  5. hackingonempty · 2026-08-31
    Brad Templeton did this 20 years ago, https://www.templetons.com/pq/build.html

    Comment linking /pq/build.html

    on “Playa Phone”
  6. bearwithclaws · 2009-08-15

    Submitted Copyright myths explained as a story · 29 points

    HN discussion
  7. schoen · 2016-07-14
    > I think I saw an earlier HN thread that suggested I might also have heard about some of these problems from Brad Templeton, who describes "Abusing robocar collision-avoidance" among many other interesting problems at http://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/downsides.html I don't remember if he also mentioned the kidnapping scenario when I heard him present about this.

    Comment linking /brad/robocars/downsides.html

    on “The Fight for the “Right to Repair””
  8. dustincoates · 2025-05-03

    Submitted Reaction to the Dec Spam of 1978 as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  9. ilaksh · 2012-02-26
    When is the last time you upgraded your operating system, bought a new computer, or bought a new car? The pace of technological evolution is exponential, not linear. http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns We have to operate on a day-to-day basis, not a cosmological one. We should apply current scientific knowledge on a large scale immediately. * Cars/transportation -- Where Robot Cars (Robocars) C…

    Comment linking /brad/robocars/

    on “TV is broken”
  10. DanBC · 2012-02-19

    Submitted Reaction to the DEC Spam of 1978 as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. abecedarius · 2022-03-30
    Yeah, I looked up this overview https://www.templetons.com/brad/transit-myth.html and it agrees there's a difference from European/Asian systems.

    Comment linking /brad/transit-myth.html

    on “Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco”
  12. todsacerdoti · 2021-10-09

    Submitted ProleText as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. WalterSear · 2019-06-18
    You get one or the other: low density housing, or effective public transit. https://www.templetons.com/brad/transit-myth.html

    Comment linking /brad/transit-myth.html

    on “$1B for 20,000 Bay Area homes”
  14. edw519 · 2009-06-09

    Submitted The Rise and Fall of the earliest "dot-com" as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. blakeweb · 2010-10-09
    If you're interested in more, Brad Templeton has been singing the praises of a future with robot cars, and how to get there, for many years, both in all the futurism un-conferences I've visited in the bay area, and on his very thorough website: http://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/

    Comment linking /brad/robocars/

    on “Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic”
  16. telotortium · 2019-07-26

    Submitted The Future of Mass/Public Transit (2016) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. jeremyjh · 2024-12-11
    This is what is in front of our eyes: https://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/timeline.html Maybe yours see something different.

    Comment linking /brad/robocars/timeline.html

    on “GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house”
  18. simonebrunozzi · 2016-11-04

    Submitted How will robotaxi services compete in the future? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. rangestransform · 2024-12-11
    People getting to their destination safer, faster, insulated from weather and crackheads, not listening to showtimes, not breathing in subway tunnel air [1], is good for the individual People consuming less energy to get to their destination [2] is good for society [1] https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/subway-air-pollution-dispro... [2] https://www.templetons.com/brad/transit-myth.html

    Comment linking /brad/transit-myth.html

    on “GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house”
  20. petra · 2016-03-24

    Submitted The Future of Mass/Public Transit as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. jshprentz · 2024-12-11
    Brad Templeton's Robotaxi Timeline[1] (October 2024) shows a dozen milestones that Waymo has achieved over nearly 15 years from "Make a nice video" to "100,000 Rides per week." Waymo needs two more milestones to achieve "Production!" Waymo's competitors are behind on the timeline, but may move faster thanks to improved technology and a more welcoming social environment. [1] https://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/t…

    Comment linking /brad/robocars/timeline.html

    on “GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house”
  22. tech6 · 2014-12-06

    Submitted Sensor for Autonomous Cars: Camera vs. Laser as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. pjc50 · 2022-11-03
    USENET never really solved spam. I remember the statistic that at one point one third of usenet traffic was spam and another third was spam cancels . Here's what people felt at the time: https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/writing/rant.html (the "cancel" message was hilarious since when invented it was unauthenticated, i.e. anyone could delete any post on any group in USENET! This had to be fixed: https://www.templetons.co…

    Comment linking /usenet-format/cancel.html

    on “Moderation is different from censorship”
  24. luu · 2014-01-15

    Submitted The Rise and Fall of the earliest "dot-com" as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. subleq · 2015-03-19
    Here is an article comparing sensor types: http://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/cameras-lasers.html

    Comment linking /brad/robocars/cameras-lasers.html

    on “Elon Musk: Tesla cars will have “autopilot mode” by summer”
  26. alter8 · 2013-05-10

    Submitted Fixing DNS -- how to break up ICANN as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. JdeBP · 2018-11-27
    This is a common copyright fallacy. So common that Brad Templeton was combatting it 20 years ago. Publication does not waive copyright. * https://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

    Comment linking /brad/copymyths.html

    on “One of the world’s most visited websites that nobody is aware of (2017)”
  28. dctoedt · 2012-09-28

    Submitted How driverless car design choices might reshape mass transportation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. schoen · 2018-04-05
    Brad Templeton has some very relevant discussion of this in https://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/levels.html including > There is additional controversy, it should be noted, about the proposed level 2. In level 2, the system drives, but it is not trusted, and so a human must always be watching and may need to intervene on very short notice -- sub-second -- to correct things if it makes a mistake. [...] As such,…

    Comment linking /brad/robocars/levels.html

    on “Tesla crash in September showed similarities to fatal Mountain View accident”
  30. danteembermage · 2007-05-12

    Submitted 10 Big myths of copyright explained as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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